Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Keith Wilson ｜ 10⧸2⧸25
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In this edited version of the show, we talk about what's going on in Washington, Canada, and Pastor Rob McCoy's recent trip to South Korea. We also talk about loneliness and how to deal with it.
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don't have a lot of time, I'll give you everything that was really important in today's show. We
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start with Barry Blattermilk and what's going on in Washington today. Also, I wanted to speak to you
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about loneliness and feeling like maybe you're alone or it's just you. You're not. Also, we spoke,
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and I don't know if it's going to make it on this edited version, but on the longer version,
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we spoke to Pastor Rob McCoy, Charlie Kirk's pastor. He just got back from South Korea.
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I did a show last night on South Korea and how bad it is getting. We are about to lose an ally
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in South Korea. It is happening fast. They're going into authoritarianism and China is just
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flooding their borders with people. And Canada is in the same kind of situation. Keith Wilson,
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he's an attorney up there. He is working with Alberta and Saskatchewan. They look like they both
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kind of want to break away from Canada. The Supreme Court of Canada said you can hold an election if
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you decide to vote that way and break away from Ottawa and Canada and start your own thing. You can
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do it. It's getting really serious up there because Ottawa is becoming like Portland and they are
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dictating all of these crazy things to Alberta and Saskatchewan, which is really kind of more like
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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I'm great. Good morning. Thanks for having me on. It's an honor.
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Hey, it's great to have you on. We've been trying to talk to somebody up in, uh, you know,
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in Ottawa, I'm sorry, in Alberta about what's happening for a while there. I know things are
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moving at breakneck speed. Bring us, bring us up to speed. Let's, can we start with the gun thing?
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What is happening in Canada with, with Ottawa going after all the guns?
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Well, it's really remarkable. You know, here we are, your closest neighbor. Uh, and you know,
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I'm sure Americans have this image of Canada, you know, strong and free and the, that visual of our,
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our Royal Canadian Mounted Police and their red surges riding horses and, you know, all those
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sorts of things. And the reality is, Jeff, we've just slipped very badly since the COVID mandates
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into a very authoritarian, dystopian type phase, like we're seeing in other countries.
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And the gun grab is a good example. Uh, a few years ago, the leftist federal liberal government,
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they have a hate on for anything to do with guns and freedom and Christians and religion. And so they
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announced that, uh, they were going to start building a list of guns we're not allowed to have.
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They started with what they called assault style ref rifles, which were really just scary looking guns,
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anything that was black. Anyway, over the years, they've expanded that list. Now,
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up to, uh, uh, three or 400 different models of hunting rifles, shotguns, sports shooting guns,
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and, uh, there's over 500,000 guns that are now illegal. We're still hold them. And this year
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they've announced they're going to start a confiscation process of rounding up and taking
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our guns. Boy, that is not going to end well, especially in places like Alberta. I mean,
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do I have it right? Alberta is, is kind of like Texas. It's, it's a, it's a ranch kind of area.
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It's wilderness. Uh, it's tough, tough people that are independent minded, right?
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Not only that, you know, like real, first of all, Alberta is just North of Montana. Uh,
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we're a huge province. We're both the same size and landmass as Texas. And our origins are actually
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from Texans and people from the Dakotas and Wyoming after the civil war, moving up here and
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doing cattle drives. So our background is, is our origins are, uh, our founders are Americans,
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but not only that we have, Alberta has the third largest reserve of oil and gas in the world.
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Um, and, uh, Texas has a lot of oil. There's so many similarities. Yes, we have a cowboy culture
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where Texas North, uh, uh, guns are important to us. We're hunters. Uh, we're, we've got that
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rugged individualism, uh, uh, uh, our religion and our Christianity is really important to us. So
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there's a huge amount of parallels between Alberta and Texas. So I know how Texas would respond to this,
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uh, and it would be, get the hell off my land. How is Alberta going to react to this?
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Well, I mean, we all know that history has taught us that good things don't happen after
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governments take guns away from citizens. Never, never. And so Albertans are very mindful of that.
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We're fundamentally distrustful of the federal government in Ottawa. And this may sound provocative,
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but they basically hate Albertans. They hate our conservatism. They hate our Christianity. They
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hate our sense of freedom, uh, our belief in property rights and the rule of law and all those
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things that doesn't abide with the new progressive leftist Marxists. So what our, our, our province is
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like a state, the province of Alberta. So we have a premier, which is like a governor and our premier,
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premier Smith has been very adamant that, uh, the police forces in Alberta are not to cooperate
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with the federal government when they come for the gun grab. She's done some other really interesting
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legal things like said that, um, uh, that the, that the federal officials will have to get a seizure
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permit from our attorney general. And, and she says, she jokes, she has it on good authority that
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our attorney general won't be issuing them, but I mean, it will come to a head at some point.
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Uh, it's frightening to think about that. I don't know where it's going to go, but it's part of a
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pattern of many other events up here in Canada that, um, have led to so many Albertans to say,
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we want out of here. We want to form our own country. Uh, we want to be like Canada once was
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true, North strong and free. Okay. So, uh, that is just terrifying, really terrifying. Um, because,
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you know, especially with all that oil, no country wants to let that go. Um, uh, do you think
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the rest of Canada will just be cool with that?
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Yeah. Well, you know, Alberta really has a unique culture. Uh, and, um, you know,
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there's great variety, as you know, variability in the culture of, of the United States. I've
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traveled extensively with my family over the years, you know, there's a great difference between
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the folks up in Connecticut and then there is the folks in Texas. Um, but you know, the rest of
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Canada primarily are the, our, our sister province to the East, it's called Saskatchewan. They're very
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much aligned with us on everything. And they not only have oil and gas, they also have the largest
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reserves of uranium in the world, uh, as well as potash, which should go straight down into the
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farm fields of Iowa and so on. So we're, we're important, um, strategically for the United States.
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And, and these two provinces are aligned. I think if Alberta votes to separate,
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Saskatchewan will come, but other parts of Canada, they're, they're, they're like, you know,
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they're like these blue States in the U S the hardcore Democrats. They, they think the most
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important thing to do is to display pride flags. And, you know, um, uh, uh, you know, we, we started
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off with, uh, having pride week and LBGTQ stuff as, as a day, and then it became a week and then it
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became a month and it's a national celebration for a month. And, and all of these extremely progressive
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views, wide open immigration, our immigration numbers are out of control. So their mindset
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in the rest of Canada is, is very much left-leaning, very much wanting government to look after
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everything, wanting government to care for every aspect of their life. Whereas those of us in the
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West on the prairies in Alberta and Saskatchewan, no, we, we don't think government's very good at
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doing much of anything. Uh, we'll look after our own problems. Uh, we're, we're rugged individualism.
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So there is an incredible divide in Canada. Canada is not a united Nate is not a nation that's united
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with common values anymore at all. The rest of the country has gone very hard left. Whereas Alberta
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and Saskatchewan have stayed true to conservative principles.
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It's very frightening. You know, my wife and I have four kids, uh, actually you and I are the same
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age. And, uh, you know, so, you know, the things we think about, right. And, uh, it's a scary time
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up here for the future of our kids. The, you know, just the economic aspect of alone, there's the social
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culture, which is downright frightening, you know, the gun grab what's happened to Sean Foyt and,
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and other examples, which we can talk about more, but the, the, the economics, um, Alberta,
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uh, is the largest generator of wealth in our country through our oil and gas activities,
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our petrochemical, our refining, all of these things, our agriculture and so on. And we have
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this goofy thing in our constitution where if one province is doing well, we have to send our wealth
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to the provinces that aren't doing well notionally. So they call it equalization. Well, a number of the
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provinces in the other part of the country to the East get 20% of their budget from hardworking
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Albertans. And then they impose policies on us. So for example, uh, the federal liberals are all
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these green, you know, this green leftist stuff. So we've got a net zero rule. We've got a production
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cap. We've got a tanker ban. We've got all these things because they don't want Alberta
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to produce our oil and gas. So they're holding it in the ground. They're holding our economy back.
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Albertans would be richer than citizens of Saudi Arabia or Dubai. If they would let us produce our
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oil and gas, they're not. So all of these things are layering on top of one another. This authoritarianism
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that we're seeing that started with the COVID mandates, uh, uh, Canada had some of the most
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restrictive mandates in the world. Many people don't realize that. Uh, so it's become a dark time
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up here. The thing is the progressives, the lefties and the rest of the country seem to be really happy
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with this and want government to give them more. We have our notion of free healthcare. Now we have
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free dental notionally free prescriptions and, and, and almost free daycare. Of course, the government
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can't deliver any of those things. They're all, you know, they're as real as Mickey Mouse.
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I could contender Mickey Mouse is realer than, than that, but, um, the, the state department,
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the mouse is very powerful, at least south of your border. Um, uh, the state department had a meeting,
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a second high level meeting, um, in Washington, I think on Monday and our administration is eager
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to recognize Alberta as an independent, uh, state or country. Um, can you give me any, any insight on
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what is happening on this side of the border and what does that mean with our relationship with the,
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the nut job parts of Canada? Well, sure I can. I received a briefing from that delegation yesterday.
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Um, you know, I think the Trump administration is very concerned about what's happening in Canada.
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You know, we're your, your, your largest land border, you know, what's interesting to just
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a friend of mine, actually one of the people involved in the freedom convoy protest is a
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retired army captain up here. And he explained to me that part of the defense doctrine for the United
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States post cold war is a concern about, you know, Russia and or China teaming up and coming,
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invading the United States from the north. So that would invasion would come through Alberta,
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right? And you're smart enough. You're not going to wait till they get to Montana. You're
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going to come up here. So Alberta is very important strategically as well. In fact, we have
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the most amount of military bases in Canada or in Alberta and the largest one. So
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we're a very important strategic for a number of reasons. Also geopolitically look what just happened
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with our, our leftist, um, ideological prime minister, prime minister Carney, he and
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his colleagues, uh, Steimer and Macron and one other unilaterally announced that they were going
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to recognize the state of Palestine at the same time that the Trump administration is making progress
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and trying to negotiate a peace deal. Um, you know, the, the administration in, in Ottawa is doing a
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lot of things. There's so we, we have this Chinese corruption, political inference thing. The Chinese
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government has police stations. So there's a lot of things for the U S administration to be concerned
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about, uh, about what's happening in Canada, many levels from many different lenses, as I've just
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described. Then you have Alberta where our Supreme Court of Canada has said that if a province and the
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people of a province hold a province-wide referendum, a vote, and the vote is to leave Canada and become their
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own nation, um, that, that they can do so. Canada is unique in the world and that we're the only democracy
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where the government, the constitution, the courts have laid out a legal process for a region, a state,
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or a province to secede and become their own independent nation. And one of the critical steps
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in that process is international recognition. So, um, my understanding from the meetings that,
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that have occurred that, that the Trump administration officials have indicated that
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the U S would recognize, uh, a vote by the people of Alberta to become independent. So that's very
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important to us, uh, as we, we go into, we expect the vote to occur, uh, in 2026, uh, sometime around
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this time next year. And, um, uh, I think, I think, I think the Trump administration also recognizes
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you guys have right above your border in Montana, the third largest reserve of oil and gas in the
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world. Look at the power of that, the, the energy independence, it takes you from an energy superpower
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to a mega superpower. So, and then we're completely culturally aligned. Um, uh, so I think there's a
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recognition and, and Canada's, the, the leftists in Ottawa are being global disruptors. They're not
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helping. They're helping build the, these governments with this, this anti-freedom, anti-Christian
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phenomena that we're seeing that I, it's hard to believe it's happening, but it is. So, uh, it's an
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encouraging fact that, uh, these discussions are occurring. Keith, um, please stay in touch with us.
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Anything that we can do to help, but we, I want to make sure America understands, um, you know,
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the world that we are right on the brink of, of losing or, or changing, um, and how dangerous these
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times are if we don't all keep our level heads. Uh, and, uh, I've been watching you with great,
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great interest on what's happening because, you know, if we have better access to culture wall,
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I am, I'm all for it. So, uh, uh, God bless you. Um, thank you. Thank you for everything you do.
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And, um, please pass on to your Canadian, uh, friends. There are millions of us who pray for you
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and, uh, and are with you in this, in this fight. God bless you.
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That's Americanfinancing.net. Now back to the podcast. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program,
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and we really want to thank you for listening. From the great state of Georgia, Congressman Barry
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Loudermilk is with us. Barry, how are you, sir? Doing good, Glenn. How are you doing today?
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I am really good. I have to tell you, I want to spend a couple of minutes, uh, as we get past,
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uh, some of this other stuff in the interview talking about a book that you wrote this summer.
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I didn't hear anything about it. It somehow arrived on my desk, uh, and I, uh, picked it up
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and I was going on an airplane and I have to tell you, Barry, I read that thing cover to cover. Uh,
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and I don't even know if anybody really knows about this book. I think it is one of the best history
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books and the most appropriate for its time right now. I, I actually want to talk to you about
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recording it myself. I think it would make a series of podcasts that are just fantastic.
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Um, I just love it. It would be awesome. Yeah. It's called, and they pray.
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Oh, our goals is to do an audio book on this. I just haven't had the time to do the recording yet. So,
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uh, my family's been after me to do it, but I've been a little bit busy with investigations and,
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uh, legislative work. Well, I would, I'd love to, I'd love to make it in podcasts. I think it's
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fantastic. Barry needs to be heard. Um, we'll talk about that in a second. Um, first, let me talk to
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you, um, about what is going on. First of all, let's start with the pipe bombs. Uh, what is,
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what is the latest on these pipe bombs? Well, Glenn, it's, it's amazing what having an administration
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that actually wants to get to the truth, uh, uh, can do to change a narrative. Uh, what we have
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learned and then the premise that we went on in the previous two years that I was investigating
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is that these pipe bombs were placed in the evening of January 5th. And so everyone was going off of
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that premise. We start, uh, and of course I had reached out to the FBI several times during that
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time period. Of course, the Biden administration were not, they were not forthcoming with information.
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Basically they always use this excuse. This is an ongoing investigation. So we can't share that
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information. I'm like, goodness gracious. How long is this investigation going to go?
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So what we've learned through the Trump administration is that story doesn't fit with the facts that we're
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finding. It appears to us. And, and let me give you credit because you brought this up
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on a show I was doing with you over a year ago that the pipe bombs had a 60 second egg timer on them.
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So how could you play? I mean, a 60 minute, uh, egg timer, right? Yeah. You brought that up.
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I started researching that. I talked to some bomb experts and they said, well, quite often
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that is an override. In other words, you have an electronic trigger
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that actually sets off the bomb, but you put the egg timer on to basically set it and it triggers
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the other trigger. You know, it, it, it enables it. It just basically gives you time to get away.
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So we were going on that premise. Well, one thing we get is the lab report from the FBI
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on the pipe bombs. Just got that recently. There was no electronic timer. The only timer
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timer was that 60 minute egg timer. So it's impossible that these pipe bombs were placed and
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armed on the night of January 5th. They had to be placed at some point, not long before they were
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found, uh, on January 6th, because, uh, lady that lives close by to the one that was placed by the
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Republican national committee and her testimonies, which have been consistent. She said there were still
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20 minutes left on the egg timer when she found it. Right. So that's one huge inconsistency.
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The other is mysterious data or data that has been mysteriously it's disappeared. And it was when
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the FBI was doing a geofence searches, they went to all the major cell carriers and asked for all the
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precise data, uh, of people who were in that area, uh, on January 5th and 6th, all the carriers provided
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information, except for one AT&T, AT&T, uh, apparently corrupted the data. Now, no,
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we kept hearing that the data was corrupted. And this is in my previous investigation, AT&T claimed they
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didn't corrupt the data. The FBI did the FBI. We found out later said, no, the data was corrupted
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when we got it. Now that we get the real information, it becomes even more mysterious.
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There is a entity known as FirstNet. FirstNet was created by Congress after 9-11, uh, to preempt cell
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service for law enforcement. So they only serve law enforcement first responders. So in a time of
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emergency, their calls take priority. So FirstNet is actually sits on the AT&T backbone. For some
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reason, and this is where my suspicion started growing, is when the FBI contacted AT&T, gave them
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a preservation letter, said save all of this data specifically around the areas where the pipe bombs
00:25:36.740
were, because they have to go through the legal mumbo jumbo to actually get the subpoena. So they
00:25:43.140
don't want stuff to disappear. They send a letter telling AT&T to preserve the data. AT&T responds and
00:25:48.820
says, you have to go to FirstNet to get this data, which raises my suspicion. Why are they telling
00:25:55.060
them to go to the carrier just for law enforcement? Well, according to FirstNet, that data was going to
00:26:04.500
be deleted within just a few hours. So they were in this massive hurry to download all the data before it
00:26:10.260
was deleted. And somehow it just got corrupted. I'm not buying the story.
00:26:16.660
Okay. So, so wait a minute. Why would FirstNet have access to the data? Why wouldn't it still be with
00:26:24.580
AT&T? My question, I've questioned that, and this is what we're seeking right now.
00:26:31.060
Now, was it law enforcement information that the FBI was seeking? Or first responder? Why were,
00:26:39.460
first of all, there was a reason AT&T sent them over to FirstNet. We don't know. And we've been
00:26:46.980
told that FirstNet had just signed a contract with the FBI. And so they were handling all the data
00:26:52.740
retrievals. So that's a possibility. I mean, these are questions we don't have that we are seeking
00:26:58.740
right now. But the bottom line is the narrative that we were sold on is not even close to what
00:27:05.140
the evidence is bringing up. So what does that imply? Who is giving us this false testimony and
00:27:14.740
evidence? Well, that's what we need to find out. Is it, is it AT&T? Is it FirstNet? Is it, and probably
00:27:25.060
likely to an extent, likely to an extent, the FBI? So we're going to be requesting more information
00:27:29.780
from the FBI as far as details of their investigation. And, you know, what FBI had claimed,
00:27:41.300
the Biden FBI, was, well, obviously, the person who placed the pipe bomb, their data was in that AT&T
00:27:47.940
set that got corrupted. I'm still having an issue with the corruption. I spent 20 years in the IT
00:27:52.980
business. When data, data is never really deleted. It's always saved somewhere. It may be archived.
00:28:01.860
I can't understand how such a carrier like AT&T would just arbitrarily delete data literally within
00:28:10.420
a few days of a major event. In our previous investigation, we contacted all these carriers,
00:28:17.220
and one carrier says, look, when it's a significant event, we keep that data forever. They
00:28:22.860
said, we even still have data from the Oklahoma City bombing. Wow. So if that's the case, I'm not
00:28:29.500
really buying the story. Was any other data? I mean, they seem to have found everybody,
00:28:37.660
every grandmother, was any other data corrupted other than this particular area?
00:28:44.700
That's what we need to know. But my understanding is no, just the area around the pipe bomb.
00:28:51.340
And it was very precise data that would actually give you the distance from the cell tower. So this
00:28:58.460
is what we're, you know, kind of dealing with is you got to go off of some kind of premise. Well,
00:29:04.060
we've learned who claimed to have corrupted the data. And what they're saying is they were in such
00:29:11.820
a hurry to download it before it automatically deleted that it overloaded the server and the
00:29:18.380
server corrupted all the data. I'm thinking somebody needs some better servers if that's the case.
00:29:24.380
Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's weird for AT&T. Um, let me give you, uh, one more question on this and
00:29:30.540
then I want to move on to the shutdown. Um, what about the FBI saying that the bombs were viable?
00:29:37.980
Um, and lab never using that word viable. What does that mean? Um, and, and also,
00:29:45.260
is there a chance that this was some sort of a training exercise or these were training exercise bombs?
00:29:50.460
Well, that is something I've recently brought up is when you look at the lab report from the FBI,
00:29:58.140
and we're looking a little deeper in that lab report too. Um, it never does use the word,
00:30:02.620
as you said, the word viable, it does say that they were, there were explosive, uh,
00:30:08.620
components in it, but it never says that it was enough to cause a massive explosion. And so from my time
00:30:15.500
in the military, um, we did a lot of different training exercise. And if you're going to do a
00:30:20.380
real training exercise, you made things as realistic as possible. I mean, I remember
00:30:25.900
when I was in the air force, we had a simulated attack on our base. We literally had jets flying
00:30:31.660
overhead, shooting blanks, right? You try to make them as realistic as possible, especially for an
00:30:37.660
exercise like this. You want a device that looks like a bomb and it smells like a bomb for a bomb
00:30:44.460
sniffing dog. But here's the issue. We have video of the secret service with a bomb sniffing dog
00:30:51.580
walking literally within feet of where the bomb supposedly was placed the night before and never
00:30:56.780
hits on anything. So if it was it, which makes me, if it is a training exercise, if it is a training
00:31:07.180
exercise, the bomb wasn't there when the dog was walking by or he should have hit on it. So there's
00:31:15.420
there's more questions than answers, but at least we have a direction to go. So I think there is a
00:31:21.740
possibility that these were, whether it was a training exercise or somebody just used training
00:31:26.620
type devices, uh, to put out there. But if you go back and you look at the videos we released
00:31:32.460
a year ago, law enforcement, we're letting people just walk by these devices. There's
00:31:38.780
one video of a guy in a suit walking within feet of the robot. That's about to destroy the device.
00:31:44.860
That makes no sense. Unless somebody knew they weren't viable. You're streaming the best of Glenn
00:31:49.980
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podcasts. I'm talking about loneliness, but first I just want to say, I don't know your name. I don't
00:32:01.900
know where you're sitting right now. What's in your hands, even if you've spoken to another person
00:32:05.420
today, but I do know you're there. I can feel it somehow or another. I don't know how, maybe just
00:32:13.980
the same way, you know, that I'm speaking directly to you, even though this is mass broadcast,
00:32:21.340
but I want to thank you for meeting me here again today. Um, and remind you that you're here for a
00:32:27.980
reason. We all are, we're here for a reason and something, something wild and miraculous is
00:32:33.340
happening in our country right now. I just want you to recognize first, you didn't have to be here.
00:32:37.900
You could have not turned on the radio. You could have listened to another podcast,
00:32:40.940
but you didn't, for some reason you're listening to this one. And you and I are both trying to just
00:32:45.820
make sense of a world that just doesn't seem to make much sense. And sometimes that can make you
00:32:51.580
feel incredibly lonely. More and more Americans right now are spending more and more time alone.
00:32:58.540
We have a loneliness epidemic going on and, and it's weird because we live at a time where
00:33:04.540
communications have never been easier. You can talk to people all around the world and yet we're alone.
00:33:13.820
I'm experiencing this in my own life in a weird way. My kids have moved out. My older kids moved
00:33:19.660
from next door. They left for the snowy tundra of the North and my younger kids are now on their own
00:33:25.580
and we're selling our house and we've had time to walk around that big empty house filled with
00:33:30.140
memories. And it's really lonely when everybody is gone. It's really lonely. You know, people always
00:33:36.540
say nobody on their deathbed ever said, I wish I would have spent more time at work. I'm going through
00:33:41.340
that right now. I'm living a future that a, it might be, you know, perhaps like you,
00:33:47.660
a life well spent, but everybody spread all over the country and you have a ton of time on your hands
00:33:53.580
alone. And that plays games with your head, doesn't it?
00:34:00.940
Loneliness is a strange thing because it's not just the absence of people. You can be surrounded
00:34:06.780
by people packed shoulder to shoulder on a subway, hearing their laughter through the apartment walls,
00:34:12.460
feeling the vibration of life all around you. And yet it's like you're sealed inside of a glass room
00:34:19.180
that nobody else can see into. They don't look at you. They don't hear you.
00:34:25.100
And maybe after a while in dark moments, you start to wonder, am I even really here at all?
00:34:35.660
I can only relate to this in the way I have seen. I lived in New York City and that is a lonely place
00:34:41.340
to be. You're surrounded by people. I saw this play out in front of me when I was in New York City.
00:34:47.580
I was waiting for my daughter at lunch and she was running late and there was this restaurant
00:34:55.740
that we would eat at and it was down under, you know, Rockefeller Center. It was right at the ice
00:35:01.140
rink at Rockefeller Center. And I was sitting on a table for two by a window that looked right out on
00:35:06.940
the ice. And I saw this woman, she looked much older than she was. I'm sure you're kind of like
00:35:14.860
Adrian from Rocky. Do you remember in that first movie? That's how I think of her now is Adrian from
00:35:20.460
Rocky. She was pretty, but she didn't see it. And maybe it was because nobody in her life saw her
00:35:26.120
that way. I'm not really sure, but she came out and she sat down on this bench and she pulled out of
00:35:33.020
this tattered bag, her own ice skates. And they were really nice ice skates. Didn't match what she was
00:35:40.220
wearing or her bag. And, and they were not new. They were just really well cared for.
00:35:46.200
And I watched her take off her shoes and put each one on and lace them up tightly. And then
00:35:53.540
she stood up and she stood on the ice and this, this frumpy woman that honestly, if she hadn't have
00:36:01.100
sat right in front of my window and maybe because I didn't have a phone to scan, I may not have ever
00:36:06.860
seen her. And she stands up and she gets onto the ice and she is so graceful. She is floating.
00:36:15.320
Like she became like a natural element one with the ice. It was amazing. She, every move was angelic
00:36:23.860
or like a ballerina. And my daughter came to the table. I said, look at this woman, look, watch her.
00:36:30.060
And we watched her for 30 minutes or so. And she was so graceful. She would gracefully just,
00:36:38.440
I mean, it looked like art. She would skate around the clods like me that were about to crash into her.
00:36:43.920
And she was in her own world. I, I sat there and my daughter and I talked about her and I,
00:36:51.120
is she, was she a professional skater? Do you think, was she in the Olympics at one point? I mean,
00:36:55.540
she's really good. And then she came off the ice and she sat back right back down in front of our
00:37:03.200
window and she opened up that frumpy worn bag. She took off her skates, put them in and put on her
00:37:12.160
shoes. And she once again became the woman who the world, I don't think ever really saw.
00:37:18.360
And it didn't take long before she just blended into the sea of people and just disappeared.
00:37:26.380
I think about her almost, I think about her all the time because it's not just her, you know,
00:37:33.340
I wondered, does she come here for her lunch every day? Who is she? Where does she work?
00:37:39.940
Does anybody know what she has in her bag that probably sits on the floor next to her desk?
00:37:44.800
Does anybody know she's really an artist inside?
00:37:52.280
I've thought about her for years and perhaps more lately.
00:37:56.240
I've written movies in my head about her, movies that aren't ever going to be made,
00:38:05.440
She's the star in a, in a world where, where she does her nine to five. She doesn't dress for
00:38:11.320
anyone because she knows who she is. And what other people think is not just important to her.
00:38:16.480
Her job is just that it's a job. She has friends there, but a real life, a real joy is at home.
00:38:24.560
And when she gets home, her husband sees her as the beautiful, graceful,
00:38:31.200
Imagine she was there alone on her lunch hour because her kids were in school. But most evenings
00:38:41.680
in the winter, you'll find her skating with her children. And her daughter watches mom skate as
00:38:46.580
she holds onto the side of the wall until she can find her own balance. She thinks while watching
00:38:52.780
her mom that I want to grow up to be just like her, how many people exist all around us that no one
00:39:03.560
knows that you don't know. You walk by the desk every day and you don't really know them.
00:39:09.420
Have you ever just sat down in a park and just really looked at a crowd and seen the ones that
00:39:15.020
are alone and unseen by the crowd all around them and wondered, what is their story?
00:39:19.720
Where do they come from? What, what, what do they do?
00:39:27.620
And no one stops to notice. And there are millions of us.
00:39:36.760
And maybe sometimes you're left with a gnawing in your chest that whispers,
00:39:40.940
have I been forgotten? I mean, does my story even matter?
00:39:45.900
My mom thought before she killed herself that the world would be fine without her. In fact,
00:39:54.240
she thought it would be better off without her. That was a lie. The game's loneliness plays with
00:39:59.820
your head and it convinces you to stay quiet, stop reaching out because why would anybody care?
00:40:05.900
I just want you to know you're here for a reason. And maybe, maybe that reason is
00:40:13.640
because you need to hear people do care. I care. Or maybe it's because you're supposed to send that
00:40:19.320
message to somebody else today. That right now in this moment, you're not invisible.
00:40:25.600
You're not forgotten. You're heard and you're seen.
00:40:35.380
I've been doing a lot of thinking lately, perhaps too much. I don't, I don't know yet.
00:40:40.840
Looking over the horizon, see what's coming or what is possible. And that's a blessing.
00:40:45.960
It can be a curse on some days, bad days. It's a curse. But in the end, I always come back to no
00:40:51.320
matter what's happening in our world or our life. It's a blessing because we write the future.
00:40:57.740
It doesn't write us. And that's something that is lost too many times. Don't allow time to write
00:41:06.620
your future. Take control of it. Write your own future. Know that things can always change,
00:41:14.040
but wherever you are is the right place for you right now. What is it you're supposed to learn?
00:41:19.120
What is it you're supposed to do right now? What is the next right thing? Knowing that with God,
00:41:25.500
all things are possible and, and with him, you're never alone.
00:41:35.980
I want you to know that we may never shake hands. We may never share a table. We may never laugh over
00:41:44.580
something small and stupid together. But if I could, I would look you straight in the eye and
00:41:51.700
tell you without blinking that you matter. And I'm grateful that you are here.
00:42:03.580
And maybe you can't see that right now, but I promise you it's true.
00:42:08.220
And if you're not struggling with this, somebody else, you know, is, and you need to tell them
00:42:24.380
In this sea of loneliness, so strange in this, this epidemic of loneliness,
00:42:31.140
loneliness, people begin to feel it's because that they're broken. Loneliness is not proof that
00:42:42.960
you're broken. Loneliness is proof that you're human.
00:42:50.040
Maybe there's not enough human stuff that we do every day.
00:42:53.120
Because we were built for connection, one-on-one, look each other in the eye, talk to each other,
00:43:01.120
feel somebody's hand, their shoulder, whatever it is, that connection, that love,
00:43:11.620
Every time we reach for someone, every time we put those lies behind us, every small act
00:43:25.040
of defiance like that against those whispers, you are punching a hole in the glass wall that's
00:43:31.560
We need to tell each other, we're, you're not as alone as you think you are.
00:43:43.740
There, there, nobody wants to say it out loud, but we're all alike.
00:43:49.760
We just have different things that are going on in our life, different things we're ashamed
00:43:55.100
That is, that is the thing that will break the spell.
00:44:02.420
Understanding that we are all alike, that we're not that unique.
00:44:07.240
It's so weird because we are all individuals and we all are unique and we all have our own
00:44:12.460
talents and our own gifts and our own role to play that, that, that, that does not duplicate.
00:44:20.840
You, you, I can't duplicate you and you can't duplicate me because we're all unique.
00:44:28.280
It's this weird thing that, but once you get your arms around that, once you realize I'm
00:44:40.660
We all have something inside of us that we're afraid of in some way or another.
00:44:48.660
We're afraid that people will figure out we're a fraud.
00:44:58.020
Once we realize now everybody in the room feels that way.
00:45:03.020
Some people have just recognized it and conquered it.
00:45:11.120
And the way I conquered it was to talk about it, talk about the flaws in my life.
00:45:15.440
I remember Stu was with me one of his first days, he was an intern and, uh, somebody had
00:45:23.240
Cause I, at the time I had this squeaky clean image, but I was a raging alcoholic, raging
00:45:37.620
And I stopped in the middle of this conversation with somebody.
00:45:48.260
And it was at this time that I was, I didn't want to do radio anymore and I was going to
00:45:54.940
And I just, I was looking for a way to implode.
00:45:58.160
So give me an excuse to go back to school and honestly become a chef.
00:46:01.800
That's what I really wanted to do is be a chef at the time.
00:46:07.980
But I said, you know, let me tell you who, who I really am.
00:46:12.540
Everybody, all of the producers, everybody on the show looked at me like, Oh dear God,
00:46:25.740
Uh, you know, I'm, I'm struggling against, you know, alcoholism right now.
00:46:35.540
And I shut the air and I was really raw about it.
00:46:39.340
And I really did say some of the worst things about me.
00:46:43.520
And I turned the mic off and I looked at Stu and I said, Stu, write this.
00:46:58.060
The thing that I had been afraid of that people would know who I really was.
00:47:04.040
Ended up being the thing that, that taught me we're all alike.
00:47:10.280
Because I had people come up to me after that and they said in whispers, they'd glance around
00:47:24.020
Because I'm going through exactly the same thing.
00:47:30.400
And after I had multiple people come up to me on the first day and say things like that,
00:47:38.480
Hey, uh, you know, don't say anything about this, but I realized, oh my gosh,
00:47:52.120
You know, I look at my kids now and they're struggling through so many things.
00:47:55.440
And I'm, I want to say, I know I've been there, done it, but they don't hear it because
00:48:00.720
it's something about, I don't know, teenagers or 20 somethings that where you have to just
00:48:05.940
And you think everybody else who's older is stupid, um, and can't relate, but we can,
00:48:11.440
and they'll figure that out at some point because we all do it.
00:48:17.360
I just, I just want you to know you're not as alone as you think you are.
00:48:23.800
And if the only proof you have is, you know, my voice in this moment, let it be enough for
00:48:29.700
you to know that somebody, even though strangely he was the guy on the radio or on the podcast,
00:48:35.580
somebody saw you today and I'm glad you're here.
00:48:54.300
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